Finance Business Partner - 12 Month FTC

JOB TITLE: Finance Business Partner

SALARY: £65,385 - £79,915

LOCATION: Bristol or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time FTC

About this Opportunity

The team acts as trusted advisors to the Group Executive Functions areas including People & Places, Finance and Risk. In this role you will provide insight and analysis to support informed decision making and lead on budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting. You will enjoy contributing to a diverse and inclusive team and growing in an innovative and dynamic work environment. We are dedicated to ongoing personal and professional development, helping you to perform at your best and support you in fulfilling your future potential.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll be doing

• Driving development of and presenting insightful Management information with senior stakeholders, ensuring that results and issues are clearly explained and well understood and that follow up actions are clear.
• Close collaboration with your business areas supporting and challenging the business, creating well-understood robust quarterly forecasts and 6 Year Operating Plans.
• Horizon scanning for risks and opportunities.
• Providing commercial and decision support on key projects and contractual commitments, acting as a trusted advisor.
• Playing an active role in engaging with the COE teams, enhancing the flow of communication and the standards of inputs/outputs.

What you'll need

• Experience in finance business partnering, influencing, and communicating financial insights.
• Ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels across Finance and Business teams
• Listening, joining the dots and summarising the story (across Investment & BAU costs and the resulting financial benefits)
• Challenging constructively to support better quality outputs and outcomes (e.g. through finding better ways to communicate financial information)
• Experience of supporting Change / Transformation including the cost impact of different technologies.
• Strong drive for innovation and continuous improvement
• Fully qualified accountant (preferable)

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.